Call for Nomination: Order of Ontario Award 2025

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Nominations are invited for the Order of Ontario Award 2025. The Order of Ontario is the province’s highest civilian honour. It is awarded to an Ontarian who has proven the very best stage of excellence and achievement of their subject, and whose impression has left a legacy within the province, within the nation and all over the world.

Members of the Order are a collective of Ontario’s best residents, whose contributions have formed — and proceed to form — the province’s historical past and place in Canada. Upon admission, members are invested with the Order’s insignia by the Lieutenant Governor because the Queen’s consultant. The insignia is a distinguishing mark or emblem worn to suggest membership or achievement.

You can nominate somebody for achievements and excellence in any subject. Some examples embody:

• enterprise and expertise
• healthcare and drugs
• schooling and academia
• engineering and structure
• expert trades
• mining
• arts and tradition
• sports activities and leisure
• regulation and social justice
• media and journalism
• social and neighborhood companies
• science and aerospace
• literature and writing
• surroundings and conservation

Eligibility

The particular person you nominate (the nominee) have to be:

• a long-term or former resident of Ontario (the nominee doesn’t have to be a Canadian citizen).
• somebody whose profession, in any subject, has had a serious impression or affect on the province, Canada and all over the world.
• dwelling on the time of nomination.

Nomination

You should embody the next info in your nomination:

• A quick abstract of:
  • why you assume the nominee is worthy of nomination
  • how lengthy you might have recognized them
• An in depth description of the nominee and their achievements. The description should embody the impression of the achievement on the province or past.
• A minimal of 2 signed testimonial letters. The letters have to be from 2 completely different people who find themselves not the nominator. An digital signature or scanned copy of the signed letters are acceptable. The testimonial writers ought to:
  • know the nominee
  • have the ability to clarify the worth and impression of your nominee’s achievements
  • help the nomination
• The testimonial writers’ first identify, final identify, e mail tackle and cellphone quantity.

The testimonial letters and supporting paperwork are accepted in these codecs: doc, docx, pdf, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, txt. The most file dimension for every is 2 MB.

Click here to nominate

For extra info, go to Order of Ontario.